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Torrington Square
Sunday Sept 12
Dear Mrs Talfourd
Thank you very much indeed
for your agreeable letter -I take it very kind of
you to have written to me so soon. How very fortunate
you were in your passage -the dear children keeping
so well too -for of all miseries I think a set of
helpless little creatures suffering from illness you
can do nothing is most dreadful.
From your description I imagine you to be in
a most delightful situation. Wardie Brae sounds
like a pleasant place. By this time you have
seen much wonderment at the city. Is it not fine?
Some of the happiest days of my life were spent in
Edinborough, and I have a sort of veneration for it.
You must see old Davie Dean's house at St. Leonards -and
the poor Laird's not far from Holyrood house -and
(The following overwritten on first page)
I have received your second letter and kept
mine open for more last words which often
had not time to write. Dear old Holyrood House: how I should
like to see it once more. I have a piece of
furniture. Did you not smile at that green gallery of Scottish
things? I have had a note from Mr. White in which he
tells me that Mr Talfourd is that his friend
Mr. George Jones is about to act "Ion" by permission of the Author
I know Mr. Talfourd has no power over what they do in America
and Mr Price can only prevent its being done at his own
Theatre -It will undoubtedly done both at the "Bowrie and
the National Theatres before my arrival. I regret it - but
it cannot be prevented. It is really of both and
I cannot say
Ever Yours
Ellen

Torrington Square
Sunday Sept 12
Dear Mrs Talfourd
Thank you very much indeed
for your agreeable letter -I take it very kind of
you to have written to me so soon. How very fortunate
you were in your passage -the dear children keeping
so well too -for of all miseries I think a set of
helpless little creatures suffering from illness you
can do nothing is most dreadful.
From your description I imagine you to be in
a most delightful situation. Wardie Brae sounds
like a pleasant place. By this time you have
seen much wonderment at the city. Is it not fine?
Some of the happiest days of my life were spent in
Edinborough, and I have a sort of veneration for it.
You must see old Davie Dean's house at St. Leonards -and
the poor Laird's not far from Holyrood house -and
(The following overwritten on first page)
I have received your second letter and kept
mine open for more last words which often
had not time to write. Dear old Holyrood House: how I should
like to see it once more. I have a piece of
furniture. Did you not smile at that green gallery of Scottish
things? I have had a note from Mr. White in which he
tells me that Mr Talfourd is that his friend
Mr. George Jones is about to act "Ion" by permission of the Author
I know Mr. Talfourd has no power over what they do in America
and Mr Price can only prevent its being done at his own
Theatre -It will undoubtedly done both at the "Bowrie and
the National Theatres before my arrival. I regret it - but
it cannot be prevented. It is really of both and
I cannot say
Ever Yours
Ellen